I logged in today in Second Life to be greeted by a 7Seas Social Chat group discussion about fishing bots. The exchange of thought was surprising and it seems that most, if not all, are against the use of this fishing bot. I know sooner or later someone would come up with something like a fishing bot since fishing marathons are becoming a very common thing with 7Seas Fishing Game. In fact, I also run a daily fishing marathon at my place. Before, I would start the prize pot at 100L$ but I got broke so I had to changed it to an Open Prize Pot fishing marathon that is, if someone donates to the pot then the participants will get some prize money at the end. Of course, no one hardly donates so most fishers don’t fish at my marathon anymore except when there’s a substantial amount of linden dollars in the prize pot.

Some familiar names are on it like Sal, Skinny and Genevive! LOL! They are very popular indeed! :)

Back to the fishing bot, after I logged off I immediately searched for this so called fishing bot and eventually I found it at SLExchange. The bot is actually an auto-fishing HUD called Fishing Helper HUD. Wow! Fishing Helper? I guess fishing is so hard for some people that they need a HUD to help them fish. Ha ha ha! This particular HUD will not work with the standard Second Life viewer. Nope! It needs an alternative Second Life viewer namely the RestrainedLife SL Viewer. Eversince Linden Labs made the viewer open source alternative viewers have surfaced and the RestrainedLife viewer is one of them.

The RestrainedLife viewer is specially created for those residents who are into BDSM play in Second Life. It has special script commands that allow such actions needed to make BDSM play possible. The Fishing Helper HUD uses this commands to accomplish the task of automatically casting your fishing rod infinitely. I’m sure the script uses a timer to control the interval of re-casting the rod. It’s like the auto casting fishing gesture with a few differences like it does not end and it uses an alternate viewer.

The creator did add a fail safe for those fishing areas and fishing contest hosts who do not want auto fishers in their contests. Contest hosts can check who uses the HUD by typing /9999 status in local chat. They can then ask these people who use the HUD to either take it off or leave. Me? I’ll just ban them outright. No asking whatsoever. LOL!

The Fishing Helper HUD cost 750L$. It’s a little expensive by my standards (anything above 100L$ is expensive to me) and it will not guarantee that you’ll win the fishing marathon but if you have the money to spend then go for it if you really want to. I just want to let everyone know that there is a FREE alternative to this HUD and that is the 7Seas Auto-Fishing Trainer by ZetaToys.

The Auto-Fishing Trainer is a simple program which you run together with your Second Life viewer. It automates the casting process for you by re-casting every 30 seconds and it also clicks the Keep or Discard button for you that is if your SL window lines up perfectly with the clicker. Be careful though, it might accidentally click the mute button instead of the other two buttons. LOL!

The Auto-Fishing Trainer will not cost you anything. It’s FREE so you can save your 750L$ for other things. Here are some more information about it taken directly from the ZetaToy’s website.

This little app will allow you to play the 7 Seas fishing game without actually doing anything! Included are two versions one for autocasting use the gesture with F5, and another for the default F2.

Just attach your pole in a fishing enabled area, and open this application. Every 30 seconds it will activate the SL window, click somewhere inside the SL window, and then press either F2 or F5 to cast the rod. If your resolution is set just right, it will also auto-click the keep button when you receive a fish!

Using this you can either walk away from the keyboard, or sit around and chat, all without manually re-casting!

Don’t blindly spend your hard earned linden dollars (unless you really want to). Look for alternatives first and always check out Kabalyero.com because you’ll never know what goodies you’ll discover here.

Download the 7Seas Auto-Fishing Trainer from ZetaToys!